Kevin Marshall's America » cats http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog Musing & misadventures of a writer, comedian, and local treasure Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:17:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 Fight of the Year http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/11/22/fight-of-the-year/ http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/11/22/fight-of-the-year/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:10:35 +0000 http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/?p=6531 Normally I’d reserve this for the Mixed Marshall Arts blog, but this is too good not to share here.

 

NOTES:

1. Black Kitty is over confident in his jiu-jitsu. He keeps pulling guard and in doing so, he keeps giving away points and position.
2. Despite the lack of a colored [...]]]> Normally I’d reserve this for the Mixed Marshall Arts blog, but this is too good not to share here.

 

NOTES:

1. Black Kitty is over confident in his jiu-jitsu. He keeps pulling guard and in doing so, he keeps giving away points and position.
2. Despite the lack of a colored belt, Orange Kitty is clearly the better grappler of the two.
3. Black Kitty almost ends it early with a nice heel hook attempt.
4. Orange Kitty definitely knows how to work the ring, which is one of the criteria judges use in scoring.
5. At the 0:40 mark, Black Kitty performs Undertaker’s old school rope walk.

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I fought back against the onslaught for as long as I could with blog posts, snark on Twitter, and comments on Facebook. Then I saw a singular image, one so heartwarming and genuine that it gave me pause and gave me pride. Maybe it’s the 1/4th of me that’s British, or maybe it’s that at heart I’m not as bad a fellow as I let on, but when I saw this image I caved:

photo courtesy the WPA vis MSNBC

That’s Larry, the Downing Street Cat, celebrating the wedding of Will and Kate. Look at his bow!

And, like the Grinch, my heart grew three sizes this day.

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